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Problem

The repo used five competing conventions for placeholder hostnames:

Convention Occurrences
example.com 174
company.com 57
mycompany 12
your-company 8
myteam 3

company.com, mycompany.com, and your-company.com are real domains registered to third parties. pncli sends auth headers to whatever baseUrl is configured, so a user who copy-pasted a documented value would ship their PAT to someone else's host.

Having no written convention is also how two real internal hostnames reached a public test fixture unnoticed.

Changes

  • Self-hosted services<service>.imagile.dev. That domain has no wildcard DNS, so a copy-pasted config fails at DNS resolution before any credential leaves the machine. .dev is HSTS-preloaded as a second layer.
  • Vendor-hosted SaaS keeps the vendor domain with imagile as tenant: imagile.service-now.com, imagile.sdelements.com.
  • Checkmarx IAM realm placeholder mycompanyimagile.
  • CLAUDE.md gains a Placeholder Hostnames section plus a line in the Testing Rule, including the standing constraint never to add wildcard DNS to imagile.dev.
  • CHANGELOG.md: the 150 commit links were remapped onto current SHAs.

Deliberately unchanged

  • src/lib/git-context.test.ts keeps other.example.com — those tests assert behavior against a foreign host, so the domain has to stay visibly different. Using imagile.dev on both sides would defeat the assertion.
  • Email placeholders keep you@example.com (RFC 2606). This rule covers service hostnames, not mailboxes.
  • NOTICE is unchanged.
  • No site/src/ files are touched, so the screenshot requirement does not apply.

Verification

npm run typecheck   ✓
npm run lint        ✓
npm test            ✓  404/404
npm run build       ✓

Closes #294

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The repo used five competing conventions for placeholder hostnames
(example.com, company.com, mycompany, your-company, myteam). Three of
those are real domains registered to third parties, so a user who
copy-pasted a documented baseUrl would send auth headers to someone
else's host.

- Self-hosted placeholders now use <service>.imagile.dev, which has no
  wildcard DNS: a copy-pasted config fails at DNS resolution before any
  credential leaves the machine. .dev is HSTS-preloaded as a second layer.
- Vendor-hosted SaaS keeps the vendor domain with imagile as the tenant
  (imagile.service-now.com, imagile.sdelements.com).
- Checkmarx IAM realm placeholder mycompany -> imagile.
- src/lib/git-context.test.ts keeps other.example.com; those tests assert
  behavior against a foreign host, so the domain must stay distinct.
- Email placeholders keep you@example.com (RFC 2606) — this rule covers
  service hostnames, not mailboxes.
- Documents the convention in CLAUDE.md, including the standing constraint
  never to add wildcard DNS to imagile.dev.
- Remaps the 150 CHANGELOG.md commit links onto current SHAs.

Closes #294

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PR Review: chore: standardize placeholder hostnames on imagile.dev

  • Clean up previous Claude comments
  • Read PR diff and changed files
  • Review CLAUDE.md updates
  • Review test file changes
  • Review skills documentation changes
  • Check for missed/incorrect placeholder instances
  • Fix email placeholder violations
  • Submit formal review

Found: Email placeholder rule in CLAUDE.md is violated in 3 places by this same PR. Fixing before approving.

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The hostname standardization correctly uses imagile.dev for service
baseUrls, but the email exception rule (RFC 2606 example.com for
mailbox placeholders) was not applied. Three spots were incorrectly
changed: the user.email fixture in config.test.ts, the Jira email
field in pncli-scaffold-prompt.md, and the curl smoke test email in
infra/README.md.

Co-authored-by: Sunny Kolattukudy <undefined@users.noreply.github.com>

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Good change overall — the security rationale is solid and the CLAUDE.md documentation is thorough.

One self-contradiction caught and fixed in commit 8554c56: the PR adds an email exception rule ("email placeholders keep you@example.com") but then violated it in three spots:

  • src/lib/config.test.tsuser@imagile.dev in the user.email fixture → user@example.com
  • pncli-scaffold-prompt.mdyou@imagile.dev in the Jira email field example → you@example.com
  • infra/README.mdyou@imagile.dev in the curl smoke test email field → you@example.com

Two borderline cases left as-is (not mailbox placeholders):

  • user@imagile.dev as Contrast Security username in http.test.ts — this is a service credential, not an address field
  • bob@imagile.dev as ADO AssignedTo value in ado/helpers.test.ts — same, user identity in a work-item context

The jenkins.myteam.imagile.dev in skills/pncli/jenkins.md is intentional — it illustrates the per-team subdomain pattern, and the safe domain (imagile.dev, no wildcard DNS) applies.

CHANGELOG.md SHA remapping is consistent with the PR description.

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Standardize placeholder hostnames on imagile.dev and document the convention

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